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Posted on 11/21/2014 7:08:32 PM PST by Loyalist
If the end result of a war is an exchange of territory, the outcome of a revolution is ultimately the exchange of real estate. The house at 716 Gerrard Street East is an apt illustration of the downward mobility of the politically displaced.
Listed last week on MLS, the modest two-story Riverdale semidetached was the final residence of the Tsar Nicholas II’s last surviving sibling, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandranova. The highest ranking member of the Russian imperial family to emigrate to North America, Olga convalesced in the care of Russian friends who ran the beauty shop on the main floor.
She was bedridden for a year and ate nothing but ice cream, according to Nick Barisheff, who was 15 when the 78-year-old duchess succumbed to cancer in his family’s apartment. She died in the upstairs front bedroom Nov. 24, 1960, 44 years ago this coming Monday.
It was a step down for the Grand Duchess, whose palace of birth, Peterhof, is also known as the “Russian Versailles.”
At age 19, on the occasion of her wedding in 1901, Tsar Nicholas granted his youngest sister a 200-room starter home — a $453-million St. Petersburg, parapeted, neo-Palladian with a 47-window front façade.
It had its own church, coach houses, a two-storey gardener’s shed, a greenhouse and an art studio for Olga, who painted. For sport, the couple hunted wolves. The childless couple was waited on by a staff of 70.
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I was in Kenya earlier this month.Although I certainly didn't see the whole country...or even most of it...I did see a decent portion of it,including a decent portion of Nairobi.And yes,I was aware that a good percentage of Kenyans are Christian.
But what I saw of the country proves to me,beyond doubt,that it's a breathtakingly poor nation that has problems that most Westerners can't even *begin* to comprehend.
well, the hardwood floors look nice. :)
That’s nothing! Kerensky ended up as a janitor emptying pails of garbage in my old neighborhood of Yorkville.
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Really? I’ve read that they were generally far milder than the Soviets.
I’m sure justice caught up with him in what, 1953?
A day late and a dollar short.
They were milder but not mild. The secret police, police state, gulags etc. Were refined in Tsarist times
Of course it is. But Obama’s family are a Moslem lot, different from the majority who are Christians
Yeah I can see your point, but someone else had the last word.
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